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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Sony Pictures is negotiating to acquire film rights to the first novel from Richard Clarke, the counterterrorism expert who accused the Bush administration of ignoring the terrorist threat before the Sept. 11 attacks.

His novel, “The Scorpion Gate,” will be published in October by Putnam Adult. The studio hopes the film adaptation will be the first in a series of John Clancy-style political thrillers. The project will be produced by former studio chief John Calley.

John Clancy?

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Some much for accuracy. Or maybe Tom has a brother we knew nothing about?

John Clancy, author of such political(ly correct) thrillers as “The UN-Sanctioned Search for Red October”, “Imperialist Games”, and “Vague and Uncorroborated Danger…that’s Being Used as a Smoke Screen to Take the Heat Off of Karl Rove.”

What’s it say on the back? “Dick Durbin gives it two thumbs up!” How about that.

Or are they just full of themselves? LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Sony Pictures is negotiating to acquire film rights to the first novel from Richard Clarke, the counterterrorism expert who accused the Bush administration of ignoring the t…

At first I thought the Hollywood Distorter (as we former entertaintment-journalism types have oft-times heard it called) was getting Tom Clancy confused with a member of Irish band the Clancy Brothers, but they have a Tom Clancy too.

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I guess that the main character will be the center of the universe, who has all the solutions to every problem ever devised by man or nature and rubs evvery person that ever met him the wrong way. I bet he gets mad after 15 years of no one making him the king of the intelligence community and decides to strike out on his own. To demonstrate his high intellect and unique insight, he goes on TV and challenges information that can not be refuted since it would break protocol and classified information rules to respond. All the time he is lurking undercover helping OJ find the real killer.